Videos looping infinitely in SABR requests and becoming unwatchable.
Comments unavailable to read because of “TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘endpoint’)”.
These have been a problem for like at least 2 weeks now. Before there were like 3 refreshes due to SABR and you could open up comments by spamming the button despite the error.
Now however, it’s completely unusable.
Is this the death of FreeTube? I’ve really loved this software and would hate to have to permanently return to the website with all that tracking bullshit and no offline subscriptions :(
How soon before Google goes nuclear and completely locks YT to only their native client, and only on Chrome?
Unlikely since youtube is the standard for embedded media across the web and locking YouTube to only chrome seems like grounds for a lawsuit
A lawsuit that Google can just bribe their way out of.
Hopefully leads to a lemmy like exodus
The youthbers are even more dependent that reeeeeeditors. At this point, even if Goofle started making literal nazi content themselves, they’d probably gain viewers, not lose it.
Several small scale exoduses of niche communities, leaving the corporate behemoth with a miniscule loss in userbase that is quickly recouped?